The Dirty Secret Behind ISIS’ Suicide Bombers And Executioners Was Just Exposed

Islamic State in Syria and Iraq just announced it has carried out 90 suicide attacks in those countries in February alone, up from 85 in January.

Of these attacks, 51 involved the use of so-called vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED’s), the other 39 suicide attacks were carried out with explosive belts. The data was published by the Amaq News Agency, which has close ties to ISIS and is known for its reliable information about the international operations of Islamic State.

On Sunday, ISIS carried out a new deadly VBIED suicide attack in Hila, a city south of Bagdad in Iraq. At least 60 people died when a truck bomb rammed into a checkpoint on the road to Bagdad. Iraqi officials said at least 70 people were wounded in the horrific attack on the predominantly Shia town.

It was the second time within a week that ISIS carried out suicide bombings in the area of Bagdad. Last week, Islamic State murdered close to 200 people in a string of suicide attacks against targets in suburbs and neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital.

Channel 10 in Israel showed images Thursday of the frantic construction of an improvised wall around the city that is meant to stop the suicide terror by Islamic State. Israel did something similar during the so-called Second Intifada when Hamas and Islamic Jihad suicide bombers targeted Jerusalem and other Israel cities and villages.

The suicide attacks are sometimes carried out by children, as Western Journalism reported earlier. ISIS has a special program for youths that prepares children for the execution of suicide attacks and other atrocities such as beheadings.

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Islamic State suicide bombers are often drugged when they embark on their deadly missions.

The U.K.-based news site Express reported this weekend that ISIS is producing captagon an amphetamine drug. ISIS is not just producing the drug to boost courage and eliminate fear amongst its fighters but also to make lots of money with the production of captagon.

The revenues of the captagon production in Syria and in Lebanese factories along the border with Syria may exceed those of oil, experts say.

Captagon that is classified as an “amphetamine-type stimulant” by the UN is also used by Arab men in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to boost their sexual performance. The Gulf Countries are the No. 1 users of the drug, a Lebanese official told Express. The Syrian drug laws enforcement agency and Lebanese authorities have busted illegal captagon exports worth hundreds of millions of dollars in 2015 alone.

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In December last year, the Lebanese authorities seized 12 million captagon capsules, and another five million capsules were confiscated when they were shipped to Kuwait in the Syrian port of Tartus that is home to the sole Russian naval base in the region.

The head of the Syrian anti-drug squad, General Maamun Ammuri, told Express that his agency had seized shipments of 24 million captagon pills last year, and the Saudi authorities announced they had seized 22.4 million captagon capsules last year.

One captagon capsule sells for up to S10 on the black market in the Middle East, and Islamic State is one of the biggest producers of the drug.

“Our documents indicate that drug traffickers are terrorist groups with two goals: First, to spread this poison in areas under the control of the Islamic State group to fund themselves and buy weapons. And second, for its fighters to use so that they become numb to their own criminal activities, like beheadings and executions,” General Ammuri said during the interview with Express.

Captagon was reportedly also used by the perpetrators of the deadly ISIS attacks against civilian targets in Paris that killed 130 people and it probably motivated the ISIS suicide truck bomber (seen in the video below) when he was on its way to a US-backed rebel stronghold in northern Syria but then this happened…